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Princess Heather at home on the ranch II||||I hi I i I i >Ì,I>,II ì II i I i »^I Bessie W :izell Newspaper Library University o f Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 Princess Heather with Billy Bob Princess Heather Yocom Blue-green eyes, blonde hair, 5’4’ VOL. 124 NO. 32 10 Pages Wednesday, August 10,2005 Morrow County, Heppner, Oregon Industrial park could see new development South Morrow Industrial Park A Eugene man, with ahead with the buy out. If the deal is the back in g o f a large charitable trust fund, has co m p leted D esler may made an offer to purchase re c ru it o th e r b u sin ess the South Morrow Industrial development into the former Park and restart the idle 4- Kinzua mill site, including m egaw att e le c tric a l c o businesses which use low generation plant located pressure steam, a by-product of the electrical generating there. Daniel Desler, with plant. According to the Port the backing of the Western o f M orrow he has been States Reliance Trust, had discussing several proposed e a rlie r signed a 90-day business projects at the 146- purchase agreement with the acre site. Desler, who owns a Port of Morrow, and now d ev elo p m en t has about two months left to E ugene com pany called decide if he wishes to move Development by Design, has been involved with several projects in the Willamette Valley, the most current a 760-acre development on a form er saw m ill site near Sweet Home. D e s 1 e r ’ s development company plans commercial and residential development on about 400 acres th ere, in clu d in g p ro fessio n al space, residential and hotel and restaurant facilities. Desler has been working for the continued page seven Council okays music at the pool The Heppner city council voted Monday to allow the Heppner swimming pool to play m usic over its load speaker from 1 to 5p.m. A resident that lived near the pool who had complained about music in the past, has apparently moved out of the area, and pool m anager Merry Brannon asked the city to allow the playing of music again. Brannon told the council the music will be played only during the afternoon and during pool parties. In a letter to the city she also said no vulgar or inappropriate m usic w ould be played. “ We, (the c ity ) have an ‘awesome’ facility, however we feel it would be even better if we were allowed to play m usic...W e are not wishing to cause or create a disturbance. We are ju st trying to make the pool a fun place to be,” she said. After some discussion the council voted 5-1 to allow the music for the rest of the summer. C ouncilm em ber Glenn Baker was the only no vote on issuing the permit. “ I d o n ’t m ind being in disagreement with everyone, but the people who live there (around the pool) have a right to peaceful enjoyment of their property,” he said. In other pool related business, Brannon asked why a certain field area near the pool had recently been roped off by the county p ublic w orks d ire c to r, stopping parking by the public using the pool. For the past three years users of the pool had been allowed to use the area, which is owned by the county, for parking. Interim city manager Larry Mills said the county had indicated earlier that it was going to stop the parking once the paving on Riverside Street was completed. County Judge Terry Tallm an who was at the council m eeting said the county wanted to “end it" (the parking). “We didn’t want the issue to go on. The agreem ent said it would continued page seven ALL NEWS AND ADVERTISEMENT DEADLINE: MONDAYS AT 5:00 P.M. \ Blonde-haired, blue- green-eyed 2005 Morrow County Fair and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo Princess Heather Yocom is definitely at home on the saddle and on the ranch. The 17-year-old daughter of Jack and Renee Yocom of Heppner says she has been riding “as long as I rem em ber” and has been involved in 4-H just about as long. She has had 4-H sheep “a long time” and has had 4- H steers the past two years. This year Heather will show her steer, Brutus, at the fair. “The name fits him,” laughs Princess Heather. “He’s kind of wild. I haven’t had much time to work with him.” Like many o f the p rev io u s co u rt royalty, H eather’s family has long been involved with the fair, rodeo and com m unity activities. Her mom, Renee, is the Morrow County Fair secretary and has always been active at the fair. Her dad, Jack, works the bucking c h u tes fo r the rodeo. 2005 Morrow County Fair and Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo Princess Heather Yocom Grandpa. “Papa Joe” Yocom has been involved with the Rodeo Committee, the Fair Board and numerous other a c tiv itie s and her grandm other, Hilda, who passed away, was “active with everything.” Heather also has two brothers. Justin, 13\ and Zachary, 11, who. she gets along with very well. They have been really supportive,” says Princess Heather. “They have been really helpful and so have my parents.” In addition to her fair and rodeo court and 4-H co m m itm ents. H eather manages to stay busy— very continued page seven WindWave Communications proposes to acquire Heppner TV M orrow C o u n ty ’s only lo cally -o w n ed and o p erated b roadband telecommunications com pany, W indW ave C o m m u n icatio n s, has entered into discussions with H eppner TV regarding a proposal to com bine Heppner TV’s existing cable television operations with W i n d W a v e ’ s telecommunications facilities and expertise in order to produce a system capable of providing state-of-the-art, h ig h -sp eed broadband telecommunications, internet and entertainment services, announced a recent press release from W i n d W a v e Communications. I n c r e a s e d competition from satellite services has made Heppner T V ’s long-term viability questionable. H eppner TV has recently confirmed that due to continued financial losses its only sh o rt-term alternatives are to continue to increase rates an d /o r cease its o p eratio n s in H eppner. Increased competition from satellite television providers and decreasing m em berships g en erally have caused Heppner TV td post a net loss of over $13,000 in the fiscal year ended Jan. 31, 2005. Based upon current p ro je c tio n s this loss is expected to widen in the current fiscal year. W i n d W a v e ’s pro p o sal o ffers an o p p o rtu n ity to mai nt ai n existing service levels and offer serv ices the co m p etitio n does not provide, added the press release. W i n d W a v e Communications has been expandi ng its telecommunications system in M orrow C ounty and would like to enhance the service it makes available in Heppner. Upon acquisition of Heppner TV, WindWave would begin the process of upgrading the current cable TV serv ices to bring ad d itio n al serv ices to H eppner and the sur r oundi ng area. WindWave is committed to maintaining and increasing service levels over the next five years to compete with those of satellite services. As such WindWave proposes the following: continued page seven Special Fair & Rodeo section included in this weeks paper A special 16-page section covering the Morrow County Fair & Oregon Trail Pro Rodeo is included in this week's Heppner Gazette-Times, The section includes schedules of events and much more information about the Fair & Rodeo. U /ran/rb> r wrangler Saye F A J e a n s , B lo u s e s , S h irts O n S a le ! m Our Big t n 0 P i0 SALE! See the sale ad on page 3 Morrow County Grain Growers Lexington 989-8221 • 1-800-452-7396 For farm rquipm ont, »lift our w «b lit * at WWW m cKg iM t w x
